That statement is also factually inaccurate. If you took the Top 16 teams from the AP poll, the coaches poll, kenpom stats, RPI, etc and then look at the actual Sweet 16, typically 6-8 of those teams are actually in the Sweet 16 or less than half. I believe the correct # is around 38%. This is on a historic basis over the last 30 years. Some years you will have more teams that make it and other years less. Even if you use KenPom's data Wisconsin performs better than predicted value because you have to take the season as a whole and what other teams in the same ranking tier also did in the tournament. For example Missouri was a #2 seed last year. Despite the fact that they lost early, you don't have a team like Wisconsin or Ohio that advanced further in the NCAA tournament than Missouri supplant them in the final rankings, even though they performed better based off of one metric (NCAA tournament wins).
And yes, I know Iowa won at the Kohl Center last season. Apparently phucking anyone could beat us at that time. Izzo hadn't beaten us there in a decade and he did as well. I'll take that as a sign we could lose to anyone until we got things pieced together in late January.